Gas-lighter.



Patented Oct. l, I90l.

' S. BORONUW.

GAS LIGHTER. (Application filed July 5, 1901.)

(No Modal.)

WITNESSES JaZa @rwmzm A TTO/i/VEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SALO B ORONOYV,

GAS-LIGHTER.

sPEcimcATIoN formingpart of Letters Patent No. 683,876, dated October 1, 1901. Application filed \l'uly 5, 1901. Serial No. 67,127. (No model.)

To all whom it may col'zc'ern: I

Be it known that I, SALO BORONOW, a citi- 'zen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Gas-Lighter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in electric gas-lighters; and the object is to provide a simple means for holding the circuitcloser or push-button in place without soldering, as is the usual practice, thus saving in time and cost in the assembling of the parts, the said means also serving as an insulator between the battery and the handle of the lighter.

I will describe agas-lighter embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of a lighter embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof, and Fig. 3 is an end view of the push-button holding device and insulator.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the tubular handle of the lighter, and 2 the tubular stem extending therefrom and terminating in a hood 3. Arranged within the handle are the battery-cells 4 and 5, one element of the cell 5 being in electrical connection with the handle 1 by engaging with a spring 6, attached to a screw-cap 7. One terminal of the cell 4 is in electrical connection with a metal plate 8, from which a wire 9 extends through the stem 2 and has connected to it one end of a platinum wire 10, the other end of said wire 10 being attached to a wire 11, leading back through the stem 2 and connecting with a contact-piece 12, which extends through a washer 13 of insulating material-such, for instance, as cork-arranged in the shell 14, in which the push-button 15 moves. The push-button 15 is held normally out of engagement with the contact 12 by means of a spring 16, arranged between the push-button and the washer 13.

As before stated, a main feature of my invention resides in holding the push-button in place without soldering. As a means therefor the shell 14 is provided with a flange 17, which engages against the inner side of the handlel and is held tightlyagainst the same by means of a cylinder 18 of insulating materialsuch,for instance,as paper. This cylinder is open longitudinally at one side, as clearly indicated in Fig. 3, so that when inserting it in the handle it may be folded or have its edges overlap, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, and then when released will spring outward against the inner surface of the handle. This cylinder also serves as an insulator between the battery-cells and the handle.

It will be noted that the current flows from one pole of the battery through the plate 8 to the wire 9, thence through the platinum wire 10, back through the wire 11 to the contact 12, and thence through the push-button and shell, when the push-button is engaged with the contact,-and through the handle 1 to the other cell of the battery.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. An electric gas-lighter, comprising a tubular handle, a battery arranged therein, a push-button extended through an opening in the handle and having a loose connection with the handle, and a cylinder of resilient material serving to hold the push-button in place and also serving as an insulator between the battery and the handle, substantially as specified.

2. An electric gas-lighter, comprising a tubular handle, a battery arranged therein, a push-button, a shell in which the push-button is arranged, said shell having an annular flange at its inner end for engaging against the inner surface of the handle, and a paper cylinder for holding the shell in place, sub stantially as specified.

3. An electric gas-lighter, comprising a tubular handle, a battery arranged therein, one

pole of the battery being in electrical connection with the handle, a plate at one end of the handle with which the other pole of the batteryengages, a circuit-closing device comprising a shell extended loosely through an OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE STAR ELECTRIC A GAS LIGHTER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK.

2 asQe opening in the handle, a push-button movl tery and the handle, substantially as speciable in the shell, a washer of insulating material in the shell, a contact-point attached to the said washer, a wire leading from the contact to a wire of platinum or the like, another wire leading from said platinum wire to a connection with a battery, and a cylinder of resilient insulating material serving to hold the contact-closure shell in place and 10 also serving as an insulator between the bat- In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SALO BO RONOW.

Witnesses:

ALICE ERNST, G. P. HEINRICH. 

